I had a philosophy at last.

The words of Christ "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you," had a new meaning for me.

Not in the past or in the future, but now and here is Heaven within us.

All our duties lie in this world and in the present, and trying impatiently to peer into that which lies beyond is as vain as fruitless.
All the remnants of theology in which I had been born and bred, all the impressions that Swedenborg had made upon me, now ceased to influence me or to occupy my thoughts.

I found that no nation had all the truth in the revelation it regards as divine, and no tribe is so low as to be left without some truth; that every people has had its great teacher; Buddha for one; Confucius for another; Zoroaster for a third; Christ for a fourth.